Barbara Good's Bag

Sorry for the lack of posts for a while. Everything that can go wrong seems to be happening to us here at TFHMH. We lost a relative, have all been suffering from a horrible cold and to top it off I needed to see the emergency dentist :(
But we have to carry on with things don't we!!!
As some of you may know I am utterly obsessed about The Good Life. If I could be anyone I would be Barbara Good, in fact my mum joked that I married my partner because his name was Tom lol.
And thanks to the wonderful invention that is Pinterest my obsession can grow that little bit more. My current challenge is to recreate Barbara Good's bag. You can see it in this photo just behind Tom's hand on the hook. I love the shape, the style and the idea of owning something just like Mrs Goods. The bag above looks like straw/wicker which I am sadly lacking in so mine will be a crochet version. Wish me luck folks, I will post my progress later on.
x x x

Wedding items for sale

30 x clear glass tea light holders
8x copper tea light holders
16x tea lights (Prices brand)
£10 (inc P&P)

10x wedding favours in handmade bags.
(6x copper, 4x clear)
£5 (inc P&P)
Wedding odds and sods
(5 handmade favour bags, 3 assorted pieces of ribbon, 3 novelty wedding bubbles, Approx 30 party poppers, wedding day gift bag)
£5.00 (Inc P&P)

Lots to do

100 down.............

1,000,000 to go! I picked up this bag of stamps in a charity shop a short while bag for just £1. They all need peeling off the backing or cutting out but think of all the wonderful crafting possibilities!!! I'm having thoughts about using them as mosaic tiles and covering something.
Any suggestions?
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P.S Sorry for the short post but we have a grumpy toddler full of cold here today, I sense that not a lot will be achieved today x x x

Back to reality

Well ladies and gents I am officially a married woman. I thought I would pop up a few pictures to share our day with you. First up is us signing the register.


Me with my parents. They were fantastic, and helped organise everything.
OH and his parents.



Our wedding cake was a tri-force cake from The Legend of Zelda. One of our favorite computer games. We had this at our reception but I just had to pop a photo on here.

All together at Jamies Italian in Gun Wharf Quays at Portsmouth. We chose to have a nice family meal out for the wedding party on the day, as our reception was a few days later.

Hope you like the photos, normal blogging will resume tomorrow.
x x x

24 hour countdown

Exactly 24 hours till my wedding sooooooooooo excited.

Movie day

 It's been a lazy day today. The weather first thing was pretty awful so we decided to spent have a jammy day with lots of movies and blankets. First up we watched Solaris. I'm normally into sci fi and spacey films but this just didn't work for me. I had to look up somethings on IMDB which is never a got sign after watching a movie. It's quite a dark and depressing movie as well which is kind of annoying as I thought it was more of a romance from the trailers. This is definitely not going in the "to keep" pile and will be passed back to OH's shop for sale.

 After a tasty lunch of 10p noodles with grated cheese on top, we continued our movie day with Crocodile. This is a classic monster movie and its so incredibly awful it's good. I personally love a crappy movie and this ranks high up there. I have a feeling that if this movie was remade with today's special effects then it would actually be a pretty big hit.
  What films have you watched lately?
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Bargains galore

Good evening lovely readers. I made a fabulous discovery yesterday. A wonderful scheme called Healthy Planet one of their schemes is Books for free all the books above were from our first visit. The top two are OH's, the Fairy Tales are to read to DD, and the bottom two are all mine mine mine. I'm hoping to try a few things from each of them shortly so watch this space.

2x Cath Kidston tissues £1 - Book for DD 40p -
2X Key rings £2.00 - Vintage pillowcases - 50p

This is my charity shop haul from today. One of the key rings and tissues are for someone for Xmas and will be put away. The book is for DD, and the vintage pillowcases have an undecided fate for now. I hardly ever see vintage pillowcases so these were a wonderful find.

This is my current project, can you believe this chair was in the communal bin shed? I think its beautiful and under the scuffs and dinks I could see some potential shining through. So I brought it indoors..........

... gave it a good sand papering. It took me about an hour but I found it really therapeutic. And then..........
... gave it two coats of Wickes Petal. It not the biggest of painting projects, so I used a tester pot and even after two coats I still have a healthy blob left for touch ups.
My job tomorrow is to give it a light sand down to even out the paint and then a coat of varnish.
Then I can move onto making a nice cushion to finish it off. I promise to keep you posted :)
x x x